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    Image number: RS.10091
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    ‘Abscess of the brain’

    Date
    1826
    Creator
    J Stewart senior (British) , Lithographer
    After
    J Stewart junior (British)
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X307/3
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 307mm
    width (print): 238mm
    Subject
    Content object
    human body
       > brain
    Description
    Five figures showing abscesses in the human brain. Figure 1 An abscess near the extremity of the anterior lobe. Figure 2 A small abscess in the substance of the brain, between the lateral ventricle and the middle of the right hemisphere. Figure 3 An encysted abscess in the middle of the left anterior lobe. Figure 4 An abscess in the extremity of the anterior lobe of the brain. Figure 5 A portion of the right anterior lobe of the brain with a large abscess.

    The author states in accompanying text that: “The common, the encysted, and the cellular abscesses are represented in this plate.”

    Plate 9 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees..., 1826). Inscribed: “PLATE IX. J.Stewart, Junr. delt. J.Stewart, Senr. sculpt. ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN.”
    Associated place
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